Viveur Quotes

#1. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Allison Anders

#2. Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Marco Tempest

#3. The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.

Peter Drucker

#4. Enable me to take up the shield of faith as constant protection from the enemy. My soul waits for You, Lord, my help and my shield (Psalm 33:20).

Stormie O'martian

#5. I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

#6. For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.

Roberto Bolano

#7. Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

Jonny Greenwood

#8. But Sissy had a way of bringing out the "fun" side of anybody if she'd a mind to. To quote Janie Mae, "Sissy came out of my womb with her middle finger raised.

Shelly Laurenston

#9. It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

Win Butler

#10. and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.

Mary Renault

#11. Beauty puts a fine point on grief, shoots bull's-eye into the heart.

Lauren Groff

#12. Also learned that the ones who invented the notion that work is ennobling were the same ones who drank and ate all night long with beautiful women on their knees, the rich ones, who could be as happy as little children

Anonymous